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In short
Abhijit is the twenty-eighth nakshatra, a narrow span carved from the end of Uttara Ashadha and the start of Shravana. This app uses it only on the 28-star ring that two BPHS dasha systems need, Ashtottari and Shastihayani; the everyday 27-star nakshatra and the Vimshottari dasha leave it out, and the app does not compute an Abhijit muhurat.
What the term means
Abhijit is the extra star of the old 28-nakshatra ring. Most of Jyotisha counts 27 equal nakshatras; a few systems insert Abhijit as a short span where the last quarter of Uttara Ashadha meets the opening of Shravana. The name is also used for a midday muhurat in almanacs, a separate use that this app does not compute.
Where the term comes from
BPHS Ch. 46 Sl. 21-22 say the dasha calculations for Abhijit are done by taking the fourth pada of Uttarashadha together with the first fifteenth of Shravana. The same chapter's Ashtottari and Shastihayani tables run over 28 stars and name Abhijit among them. Saravali Ch. 35 Sl. 86 gives a birth result for one "born in Abhijit star". The texts in this site's corpus name Abhijit only as a star, not as a muhurat.
How this app uses it
- A separate 28-star ring places Abhijit from 276 degrees 40 minutes to 280 degrees 53 minutes 20 seconds of the sidereal zodiac, trimming Uttara Ashadha before it and Shravana after it.
- Ashtottari reads the Moon on this ring; Abhijit falls in Saturn's run of stars. Shastihayani groups Abhijit with Shravana and Dhanishta under Saturn. Both tables check themselves against BPHS when the server starts.
- Your ordinary nakshatra, and the Vimshottari dasha use the 27-star ring, so they never show Abhijit.
In practice this means a Moon in the last quarter of Uttara Ashadha is read as Uttara Ashadha on your chart page but as Abhijit when the app works out an Ashtottari or Shastihayani sequence. The two answers are not in conflict; they come from two different rings.
Pages that use this term
- Alternate dashas calculator - Ashtottari and Shastihayani.
- Nakshatra calculator - the 27-star placement.
- Uttara Ashadha nakshatra - the star Abhijit trims.
- Shravana nakshatra - the star that follows it.
- Purva Ashadha nakshatra - its neighbour in Saturn's run.
Related terms
Nakshatra, Ashtottari dasha, Shastihayani dasha and Muhurat.
Alternate Dasha Systems
All nine of BPHS's nakshatra systems besides Vimshottari, plus Kala Chakra, 116 years down to 36, each with the condition it asks for.
What it needs
Date, time and place
That is more than this article asks for - it only ever takes a date, and sometimes a time, and never a name or a birth place. So this one runs on its own page, which asks for exactly what it needs and stores none of it.
Run it on its own page